Time to play a small game with you. Zesty was kind enough to let me join the spoiling efforts, but I'm not just going give you the card right away. Instead, I wrote a small review of the card's impact in limited. Bear with me, I'll keep this as simple as possible.
Back in Shadowmoor limited, one of the most difficult challenges to undertake was to know just when and how to splash for a specific color, especially when said color laid outside of your primary color axis. As usual, green had a bit of an edge on color splashing thanks to its access to one-shot fixer and cantrip spell, Manamorphose.
Flash forward eight months or so into the future. Conflux is about to take up one third of SoA drafts, and the new domain cards injected into the format are bound to reward players for taking wild risks, splashing a fourth or even fifth color into their decks. Given green's history of mana fixing and acceleration, you'd expect the nongreen shards to be the least likely to abuse the crazy benefits of off-color splashes. If you are playing Esper, though, this is not likely to be the case...
While non-accelerating mana filter cards like Mana Cylix are seldom useful on their own, it seems WoTC designers took a hint from Manamorphose when designing this new card, allowing it to replace itself! With the speed of the format, doing so during the early game won't put you too far behind. Fortunately, it's costed just so you can make this so. Even better, thanks to Esper staple Esperzoa, you might even turn this self-replacing little gem into a card advantage engine! Mix in a couple of Etherium Sculptors, and you won't even feel the tempo hit!
But then, we're talking about mana fixing here. Imagine for a second being able to splash for ALL of these off-color fatties and hit them consistently on turn five: Rakeclaw Gargantuan, Waveskimmer Aven, Carrion Thrash or even Mosstodon, all without straining your mana base one bit! Going for a splashed Mycoloth or Caldera Hellion is a bit trickier, unless you were lucky enough to draft multiples, or clever enough to go for an off-color obelisk in earlier packs.
One of the nicest things about this particular mana fixer is its resilience and recursion potential. With the amount of weenie sweepers available in the uncommon and rare slots, a Druid of the Anima or Steward of Valeron might fall prey to a well-timed Infest and never have a shot at actually mana-fixing you. Sure, a Bant Charm may still send this card packing, but nowhere a follow-up Sanctum Gargoyle can't pick it up! In fact, I'm pretty certain that if you can get some Gargoyle recursion going on, you'll have enough mana consistency to play pretty much anything your deck has to offer in the late game, and not just the one time you pop this gem.
Although color may no longer be an issue to the resourceful Esper drafter, this doesn't mean that you should go on skimpering on the lands. This particular mana-fixer may be Panorama-friendly, but that doesn't mean that you can just expect to pop it if your opponent, say, Realm Razers your lands before you have a chance of using it. But let's be honest: knowing that you can count on this level of mana-fixing on pack three, YOU will be the one picking all those early Razers and enjoying them, even if your mana base has not a single plains, forest or mountain anywhere to be seen.
The full card:
Kaleidostone
Artifact 2
When Kaleidostone comes into play, draw a card. ,T, sacrifice Kaleidostone: Add WUBRG to your mana pool.
Common
Hope you liked the analysis. Speculate away! I'll keep track in a bit and post the final version of the card once you have it all figured out.
People hiss and grunt at Mark Rosewater for the state of the game. Few realize, though, that it is Aaron Forsythe who is directly responsible of the current state of affairs due to negligence as head of Magic R&D and a completely skewed view of the game as a whole.
So next time you want to make an avvy with Rosewater pissing on something, take a deep breath and consider pasting Forsythe's face there instead...
EDH/Commander is a social format, right? So why don't people use their social skills to discuss what they like and don't like, instead of adopting a list with 60+ banned cards?
He also says its cost is like manamorphose and you wont feel tempo loss with 2 sculptors, meaning it's free if you have two in play, so it should cost 2
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To me this sentence means 2 should do it without any obelisks.
Yeah my bad on that one. You can't do it on five mana and two fixers alone.
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People hiss and grunt at Mark Rosewater for the state of the game. Few realize, though, that it is Aaron Forsythe who is directly responsible of the current state of affairs due to negligence as head of Magic R&D and a completely skewed view of the game as a whole.
So next time you want to make an avvy with Rosewater pissing on something, take a deep breath and consider pasting Forsythe's face there instead...
Note that he's saying it's a card for Esper, so I guess it has some kind of blue, white or black in it's manacost. How about this?
Kaleidostone 2U
Artifact (C)
When Kaleidostone comes into play, draw a card. WB,T: Add RG to your mana pool.
He also says you have to pop it, and you need your lands to do so, so the 5 activation is most likely. Although it being specifically Esper does denote some color in the cost.
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I would say:
Kaleidostone 2
Kaleidostone comes into play tapped.
2, sacrifice Kaleidostone: Add two mana of two different colors to your mana pool. Draw a card.
But they already made that one in Ravnica. It does seem like it is a chromatic sphere type card.
Guys: Given green's history of mana fixing and acceleration, you'd expect the nongreen shards to be the least likely to abuse the crazy benefits of off-color splashes. If you are playing Esper, though, this is not likely to be the case...
It must be esper colored somehow?
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cardname 2
Artifact
When ~ comes into play, draw a card. ,T:Add WUBRG to your mana pool.
or
cardname 2
Artifact
When ~ comes into play, draw a card. ,T, sacrifice ~:Add WUBRG to your mana pool.
Kudos at audiox for getting it on the first try... or more accurately try 1.5 considering he edited. Yeah I was watching! =)
The full card:
Kaleidostone
Artifact 2
When Kaleidostone comes into play, draw a card. ,T, sacrifice Kaleidostone: Add WUBRG to your mana pool.
I'm still waiting on zesty to get back at me on the rarity. After thinking about this card while writing the analysis, I'm pretty sure it's powerful enough to warrant being an uncommon. At common, it'd be a VERY high pick and allow some sick splashes, like the mentioned Realm Razer before.
What I like most about it is the fact that it allows so many splashes, while keeping off-color stuff like Flameblast Dragon and Mycoloth fairly hard to splash for. This'll definitely be a house on Esper limited decks with 2-3 Sanctum Gargoyles and Esperzoa.
EDIT: Just heard from zesty: it's a common. Pick 'em while you can!
People hiss and grunt at Mark Rosewater for the state of the game. Few realize, though, that it is Aaron Forsythe who is directly responsible of the current state of affairs due to negligence as head of Magic R&D and a completely skewed view of the game as a whole.
So next time you want to make an avvy with Rosewater pissing on something, take a deep breath and consider pasting Forsythe's face there instead...
I play a lot of five-color, so this set is giving me some fun options. Nice to see a card like this! Makes me wish they had some cards with Sunburst in this set!
Really though, I'm glad they released an easy-to-access card for domain players for casual and limited, and the part I love about it is the cantriping. This thing will be sick
I was thinking of making a 5-color deck, but I was gonna use composite golem for the fixing. Seems like I (and all 5-colored decks) have a new toy. And it's common! Go Wizards!
EDH/Commander is a social format, right? So why don't people use their social skills to discuss what they like and don't like, instead of adopting a list with 60+ banned cards?
5CC will never use this card. their Mana base already got a big boost from the other Reflecting pool that is coming out. This will be better if there is a way to reduce the cost of activated abilities then I see this being close to one of the best Mana exhilarates printed. Just wait to see what happens.
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5CC will never use this card. their Mana base already got a big boost from the other Reflecting pool that is coming out. This will be better if there is a way to reduce the cost of activated abilities then I see this being close to one of the best Mana exhilarates printed. Just wait to see what happens.
5cc in Constructed will never use this card. The only Constructed decks I can see using this card are maybe something with Esperzoa, if that ever becomes viable, and the current Extended version of the Eggs deck (Second Sunrise combo), which might want another "egg" enough to play this, but might not. I don't know whether it needs the help.
5-color in Shards-Shards-Conflux Draft, however, will probably want to use this card (though it might be too slow; we'll see how fast the rest of the format is).
And the bolded word in your post should be "accelerants". An accelerant is something that accelerates. Accelerant can sound similar to exhilarate, but they're definitely not the same word. This card alone doesn't do that, but it could accelerate, if, as you said, there were a way to reduce the ability's cost. (TheMoreYouKnow.jpg)
Kaleidostone
Artifact 2
When Kaleidostone comes into play, draw a card. ,T, sacrifice Kaleidostone: Add WUBRG to your mana pool.
Common
the analysis should've said how this card was supposed to have seen print in fifth dawn hahaha
you tap two mana to "thin your deck" and wait bogus amounts of turns before you can reap the benefits. if only there were things that added a lot of mana that can only be used for arti spells or abilities.
the upside is, that familiar for artifacts can make this a free deck thin spell. that's about it
Take your monoblack deck, then set aside 14 swamps. Add 4 Creeping Tar Pits, 4 Darkslick Shores, 4 Drowned Catacombs, and 2 Jwar isle Refuge and add 4 Jace, the Mindsculptors. Your monoblack deck is instantly better. Better yet, drop those refuges, throw in some islands and some mana leaks, and lo and behold, you're now playing a real deck. Congratulations. Welcome to the world of competitive M:TG.
This is a cute, fun card. The only thing that makes it playable really is the cantrip CIP ability. I like it flavor-wise, too.
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Flash forward eight months or so into the future. Conflux is about to take up one third of SoA drafts, and the new domain cards injected into the format are bound to reward players for taking wild risks, splashing a fourth or even fifth color into their decks. Given green's history of mana fixing and acceleration, you'd expect the nongreen shards to be the least likely to abuse the crazy benefits of off-color splashes. If you are playing Esper, though, this is not likely to be the case...
While non-accelerating mana filter cards like Mana Cylix are seldom useful on their own, it seems WoTC designers took a hint from Manamorphose when designing this new card, allowing it to replace itself! With the speed of the format, doing so during the early game won't put you too far behind. Fortunately, it's costed just so you can make this so. Even better, thanks to Esper staple Esperzoa, you might even turn this self-replacing little gem into a card advantage engine! Mix in a couple of Etherium Sculptors, and you won't even feel the tempo hit!
But then, we're talking about mana fixing here. Imagine for a second being able to splash for ALL of these off-color fatties and hit them consistently on turn five: Rakeclaw Gargantuan, Waveskimmer Aven, Carrion Thrash or even Mosstodon, all without straining your mana base one bit! Going for a splashed Mycoloth or Caldera Hellion is a bit trickier, unless you were lucky enough to draft multiples, or clever enough to go for an off-color obelisk in earlier packs.
One of the nicest things about this particular mana fixer is its resilience and recursion potential. With the amount of weenie sweepers available in the uncommon and rare slots, a Druid of the Anima or Steward of Valeron might fall prey to a well-timed Infest and never have a shot at actually mana-fixing you. Sure, a Bant Charm may still send this card packing, but nowhere a follow-up Sanctum Gargoyle can't pick it up! In fact, I'm pretty certain that if you can get some Gargoyle recursion going on, you'll have enough mana consistency to play pretty much anything your deck has to offer in the late game, and not just the one time you pop this gem.
Although color may no longer be an issue to the resourceful Esper drafter, this doesn't mean that you should go on skimpering on the lands. This particular mana-fixer may be Panorama-friendly, but that doesn't mean that you can just expect to pop it if your opponent, say, Realm Razers your lands before you have a chance of using it. But let's be honest: knowing that you can count on this level of mana-fixing on pack three, YOU will be the one picking all those early Razers and enjoying them, even if your mana base has not a single plains, forest or mountain anywhere to be seen.
The full card:
Artifact 2
When Kaleidostone comes into play, draw a card.
,T, sacrifice Kaleidostone: Add WUBRG to your mana pool.
Common
Hope you liked the analysis. Speculate away! I'll keep track in a bit and post the final version of the card once you have it all figured out.
So next time you want to make an avvy with Rosewater pissing on something, take a deep breath and consider pasting Forsythe's face there instead...
Artifact
When ~ comes into play, draw a card.
,T:Add WUBRG to your mana pool.
or
cardname 2
Artifact
When ~ comes into play, draw a card.
,T, sacrifice ~:Add WUBRG to your mana pool.
Artifact (u)
when ~ comes in to play draw a card
,T:Sacrifice ~ add WUBRG to your mana pool
the 2 because he said a couple of Sculpters and sac because it "pops"
uncommon as he says that you would have to be "lucky enough" to draft multiples
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Kaleidostone 2U
Artifact (C)
When Kaleidostone comes into play, draw a card.
WB,T: Add RG to your mana pool.
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this seems to fit everything mentioned in the "review". if this is it, then it would be a high pick for drafts.
Yeah my bad on that one. You can't do it on five mana and two fixers alone.
So next time you want to make an avvy with Rosewater pissing on something, take a deep breath and consider pasting Forsythe's face there instead...
He also says you have to pop it, and you need your lands to do so, so the 5 activation is most likely. Although it being specifically Esper does denote some color in the cost.
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Kaleidostone 2
Kaleidostone comes into play tapped.
2, sacrifice Kaleidostone: Add two mana of two different colors to your mana pool. Draw a card.
But they already made that one in Ravnica. It does seem like it is a chromatic sphere type card.
Guys: Given green's history of mana fixing and acceleration, you'd expect the nongreen shards to be the least likely to abuse the crazy benefits of off-color splashes. If you are playing Esper, though, this is not likely to be the case...
It must be esper colored somehow?
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Kudos at audiox for getting it on the first try... or more accurately try 1.5 considering he edited. Yeah I was watching! =)
The full card:
Artifact 2
When Kaleidostone comes into play, draw a card.
,T, sacrifice Kaleidostone: Add WUBRG to your mana pool.
I'm still waiting on zesty to get back at me on the rarity. After thinking about this card while writing the analysis, I'm pretty sure it's powerful enough to warrant being an uncommon. At common, it'd be a VERY high pick and allow some sick splashes, like the mentioned Realm Razer before.
What I like most about it is the fact that it allows so many splashes, while keeping off-color stuff like Flameblast Dragon and Mycoloth fairly hard to splash for. This'll definitely be a house on Esper limited decks with 2-3 Sanctum Gargoyles and Esperzoa.
EDIT: Just heard from zesty: it's a common. Pick 'em while you can!
So next time you want to make an avvy with Rosewater pissing on something, take a deep breath and consider pasting Forsythe's face there instead...
I suppose it's not a bad one. It reminds me of the attendants the Primeval Dragons had. You know, Darigaaz and his siblings.
Really though, I'm glad they released an easy-to-access card for domain players for casual and limited, and the part I love about it is the cantriping. This thing will be sick
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5cc in Constructed will never use this card. The only Constructed decks I can see using this card are maybe something with Esperzoa, if that ever becomes viable, and the current Extended version of the Eggs deck (Second Sunrise combo), which might want another "egg" enough to play this, but might not. I don't know whether it needs the help.
5-color in Shards-Shards-Conflux Draft, however, will probably want to use this card (though it might be too slow; we'll see how fast the rest of the format is).
And the bolded word in your post should be "accelerants". An accelerant is something that accelerates. Accelerant can sound similar to exhilarate, but they're definitely not the same word. This card alone doesn't do that, but it could accelerate, if, as you said, there were a way to reduce the ability's cost. (TheMoreYouKnow.jpg)
the analysis should've said how this card was supposed to have seen print in fifth dawn hahaha
you tap two mana to "thin your deck" and wait bogus amounts of turns before you can reap the benefits. if only there were things that added a lot of mana that can only be used for arti spells or abilities.
the upside is, that familiar for artifacts can make this a free deck thin spell. that's about it
something like a fixed Metalworker, perhaps? or perhaps a Smokebraider variant?
anyway, kaleidostone seems great for limited. constructed... ehh, I'd rather have Elsewhere Flask if I had to run some kind of cantripping superfixer.
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Orange you glad it's a common?
Now I finally get to try my hand at rainbow drafting!